Opinion: Rick Perry, the Cuervo candidate

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Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry, as has been noted more than once, has a tendency to misspeak. But I’m not certain his latest high-profile gaffe was really a mistake.

‘Those of you that will be 21 by Nov. 12, I ask for your support and your vote,’ Perry told a crowd in New Hampshire on Tuesday, apparently addressing the college students in the group. ‘Gotcha’ journalists with the ‘lamestream’ media, such as this newspaper, have pointed out that the presidential election is actually Nov. 6, 2012, and that the U.S. voting age is 18, not 21.

But Perry, of course, was referring to the legal drinking age. Because you’d have to be plenty drunk to vote for Rick Perry.

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